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Simon’s 7th live stream on Thursday went great. He has about 230 subscribers at the moment, so there were people watching and posting encouraging comments in the chat. In the … Continue reading Live Stream #7. Chapter 3 of Living Code: Random Numbers.
Simon writes: Sorry the video was cut off, we’ve recorded this video from our phone, but the phone ran out of memory. Actually, if -1/4 = 3S, can you … Continue reading Infinite sum formulas
In the video below, Simon is writing a sequence for pi (π), in which the sum of all the terms results in pi. Unfortunately, he got the formula that he … Continue reading The things that don’t converge anywhere totally blow my mind!
Simon has been studying Mersenne Primes (2^n – 1) and their relation to perfect numbers via the Numberphile channel and heard Matt Parker say that no one has proved that … Continue reading Simon trying to prove why perfect numbers are always even
This is a project about pattern. “Some people look for patterns. We call those people mathematicians”, Matt Parker said in a Numberphile video. I think I have never heard a … Continue reading Patterns. Hilbert Curve in Processing.
Simon built this game inspired by a Numberphile video (he had never seen or played the actual puzzle before, but I have as a kid). The code is Simon’s own, … Continue reading 15s Puzzle in Processing
More Numberphile-inspired stuff! Simon has been studying Mersenne Primes (2^n – 1) and their relation to perfect numbers via the Numberphile channel and heard Matt Parker say no one has proved … Continue reading More Numberphile-inspired stuff!
Simon has become a full-blown Numberphile fan over the past couple of days. He had already watched two Matt Parker videos before, but it’s this week that he got seriously … Continue reading The Square-Sum Problem
Simon’s latest live stream on Thursday, January 11 was a blast! For the first time in his programming career he actually had quite a few viewers – largely thanks to … Continue reading Live Stream #6. (Mostly) Chapter 2 of Living Code: Forces.
Studying directional light and texture in p5.js produced some fun results, especially when the webcam was involved. Based on tutorials by Daniel Shiffman.
Simon wrote this JavaScript code for Langton’s Ant (a type of Cellular Automaton) himself, inspired by Daniel Shiffman’s description/version in Processing (Java) during the Coding Train live stream on January … Continue reading Langton’s Ant in p5.js
Simon built this Tetris game in one day on Wednesday. He didn’t use any libraries. The code largely comes from a Meth Meth Method video tutorial, but Simon made it … Continue reading Tetris Game in JavaScript
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